LAMIA

Question 1

ELEMENTS OF ROMANTICISM: REVERSAL OF STEREOTYPES

Answer 1

• “Give me my woman’s form and place me where he is”- imperatives- shes in charge and in complete control of the situation.

Question 2

ELEMENTS OF ROMANTICISM: MYTHOLOGY

Answer 2

• “But Orpheus- like at an Eurydice”
• Highlights the doomed

Question 3

ELEMENTS OF ROMANTICISM: POWER OF THE IMAGINATION

Answer 3

“Purple palace of

Question 4

LAMIA AS VILLAIN

Answer 4

• “Some demon’s mistress or the demon’s self”
• “The cruel lady”

Question 5

LYCIUS AS VICTIM

Answer 5

“And every word she spake enticed him”
“Put her new lips to his and gave afresh/The life that she had so tangled in her mesh”

Question 6

LAMIA AS VICTIM

Answer 6

“The lady’s cheek trembled”
“Arose and knelt before him, wept a rain”

Question 7

LYCIUS AS VILLAIN

Answer 7

“he took delight/Luxurious in her sorrows”
“His passion, cruel grown, took on a hue”

Question 8

‘Striped like a zebra, freckled like a pard/Eyed like a peacock

Answer 8

• Tragic Grandeur
• Similes- animalistic imagery: contrasts between prey and predator